Sioux94

Dosch said....our Alpha Dogs gotta bark today.....who is gonna be our Alpha today!!

Griz down 31-7.....love it...hate those F'ers!

SIU up 14-7 at half against YSU

Apparently today is the calm before the storm. Conference foes.....last game of the season.....playoff implications.....reminds me of the early 90's.......love it! Bring on 1993.....please don't be '92!

I think this is why we haven't run it yet this year, we've been ahead and/or moving the ball so well in so many of our games we haven't needed to even try it. I really hope we aren't in that position this game either.....but we might be.

It's amazing how well that works for them. It must be because they run that formation so many times during the game.....then that one time they send the RB out on the wheel route....he is wide open. Seems like they get at least a 20+ yard pick up on that every game I've watched them play in the past few years.

Stole this from FCS Fans Nation

We pretty much gave SDSU 28 points. Pick 6, Punt return to 10 yard line, fumble on around 15 yard line. On-side kick returned for TD. Also we recovered on on-side kick and our point total might be a little inflated just due to the fact they are up so big....they are probably playing a little more of a prevent type D. I think we can win if we play solid in all 3 phases....wait I will say 4.....Offense, Defense, Special Teams, coaching decisions in certain situations. However if I had to predict I'd say 34-28 NDSU, unfortunately. But that is why they play the games.....hoping this is the Mike Mooney game. Although we ended the streak in GF last time, and in the back of my mind I was thinking 2023 was going to be the year. I thought it would be with Feeney in 2023.....obviously 2023 will be Schuster....which is great as he is playing so well. I see this game being similar to the 91 game....that game was a barn burner in Fargo that came down to the last play of the game where we were in the red zone but they stopped us on a play that pretty much fell apart from the snap. Hegerle made a game saving TD tackle earlier in that last UND drive.

Let's hope Carroll has another pretty clean game snapping the ball. There were definitely a few high ones, but none completely over the head. Give Tommy credit for not letting those high ones affect him too much. That is probably another reason to only put Q directly under center. One of the early games this year Carroll snapped a high one and Q was in shotgun and it went over his head, Tommy might have grabbed it....(maybe not)....since he gets more snaps. Losing 10-15 yards and the loss of down.....is pretty much a drive killer and like forfeiting a possession which we definitely can't afford this weekend.

Agree, we will need to get some yards on the ground. I'm thinking we will have to use the short passes and misdirection stuff to open the game though, which it seems like we normally do....and that opens up the run later. Not that you don't run at all right away, but just sprinkle it in initially. Danny can't get too cute, and our standard trick plays we've run won't work.....QB throw back...reverses.....that type of stuff, we've run them too many times and SU is well coached and always be watching the back side and will be ready. That said I'm hoping Danny has a wrinkle or two out of a couple of the formations that will hit. Maybe that hook and ladder play, we haven't run that since NAU. Sure hoping we can keep our run of hot starts this weekend, need to get some early points......well actually we will need them throughout. Agree that it will probably take 35+ to win. I still think sometime Q is going to fake a QB sneak and hit TE down the middle But let's do that on 3rd and short instead of 4th and short

In this particular bracket, I'd probably prefer they stay #4 so they would have to play Weber State in second round. On a separate note, if Big Sky only gets 3 teams in....UND needs to make a good showing so that the Big Sky isn't screaming they should have gotten more in.....and think they are the new FCS Power conference. If NDSU played Weber State.....would be better for the Valley if NDSU won when looking forward to next year comparing Big Sky to MVFC......but I'd have to root for Weber anyway.

The Einsten quote was cool......the first time our sales manager used it back in 1998.

You are right, it has been quite a while......too long. But does that mean none of us should be allowed to say anything positive.........ever? We can't even say......we will have the 2nd toughest strength of schedule, without a certain person having to put a negative spin on it........oh it's totally inflated due to SDSU. I don't see other people saying every Big Sky's teams SoS is fake because it's just inflated by Sac State on their schedule.

Pretty much no different than the Big Sky teams having Sac State on their schedule and all of them losing to them. That's a fact. But we know it's your duty to knock down anything positive regarding UND football.

If Montana loses to MSU this weekend, they will be 7-4 without a single win verses a team with a winning record. Although didn't check the record of NW ST who they played

Here is what you do though............If someone says something positive about UND football.....you are right there to say...."yeah but" and then something negative. Then if somebody says something negative, or could be construed as mildly negative........such as "just win".....you are also immediately there to say that is a losers mentality. You sit here and split hairs on everything we say.....no matter what it is....good or bad and add some negative comment to it and act like if we all just had the same mentality as you it would solve all of the problems, it just gets old. I know before I've changed something I was going to say before posting it.....because I knew you'd say something about how that is a losers mentality blah blah blah. If we give praise to a coach, player or the program.....we know there will be a comment from you about it.....usually trying to beat that positive comment down in whatever fashion you can. So if you want to talk about sad, sometime you may need to look in the mirror. I'm pretty sure all of us are ok with some constructive criticism of the team from time to time because I don't think hardly any of us feel we are where we want or need to be at, and it has certainly taken a lot longer than most of us would hope. The next 3-4 weeks will be telling, we will see how it goes. You said yesterday your comment was low risk high reward, and that is what I said about your comments two weeks ago. You can say a bunch of stuff like they won't be ready to play.......or that we have mostly D2 players, or we will go 6-5 after the SDSU loss......but if we win...... we don't care and just forget about it. But if we lose.....you can sit there and say I told you so all week and/or off season. So congrats, you've really positioned yourself perfectly on that because only 1 team in the FCS ends the year happy. Ok end of rant and done with this topic for the rest of the year. P.S. Great insight though on your comment that......"can always do better"....that never occurred to any of us before.

Yep, sure seems like you are...since now you are back peddling on your D2 comments.

Hopefully YSU beats SIU this weekend...there would be two 7-4 Valley teams....don't see how you couldn't take one of them....and obviously we get the tie breaker on that. Let's just win so our only worry is if we are seeded or not.

A lot of people on the FCS fans nation page saying......Big Sky with 5 or 6 teams in, and Valley with only 2, but it's probably fans from the Big Sky that are saying that of course. Just seems flat out ridiculous the Big Sky would get 6 in and only 2 from MVFC, especially if that 3rd MVFC team has a top 10 SoS. Just can't see the selection committee doing that without some major justification. Hoping Montana and Idaho lose this weekend. Hopefully our old nemesis Idaho State can help us out and upset Idaho. If Montana loses they don't have a single good win all season, they would have to hang their hat on close/quality losses and 7-4. ACU winning this Saturday would definitely be big for us, hope YSU wins also.

I don't think it will be that high....I would guess 8-9.

Yeah but if they come right back and score on their opening drive right away, that great momentum from the first drive is shot anyway. I think I'd still probably defer to get the ball to start the second half, but I can certainly see both sides of it. If they score on first drive though, but we come right back and score.....it's kind of deflating for the team that just scored.

I expect us to score a TD on the first possession every game now, I mean it almost seems like it's a given we are going to have a good opening drive.

How many times have we scored a TD on our opening drive this year. Seems like we've gotten a TD on like half of our opening drives this....kinda crazy....but keep it up!

With the way things have played out and SIU losing, I am ok with YSU losing. If they won and also win next week they are 8-3 and probably seeded ahead of us. I'd say we are now locked at being at least the 3rd seeded Valley team....and are now also a lock for the playoffs no matter what happens....unless we get beat 55-0 or something next week.

You know damn well if we would have went 6-5, which is what you predicted after our loss to SDSU, as soon as the horn sounded on that 5th loss.....you would have been right here to tell us all....."I told you so".